This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of January, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [728], through Associate Membership of her mother, Mrs. [...], in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and H. L. Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [728].
2. Now, as we find, the conditions are an improvement from that as we have had here before.
3. While there are still those conditions that may be improved, as we find, it might be said that there has been the start in the proper direction, making for the going to the seat or the cause of the troubles that hinder a perfect coordination and reaction in the physical forces of the body.
4. True, there are the continued reactions at times with the spasmodic conditions, yet - as is seen - the NATURE of these and that refraction which occurs between the sympathetic and cerebrospinal system is not as severe; though the turn or the attack is apparently somewhat more severe at times than others. But the breaking up or the turning of the reactions in the system is being accomplished in the right direction.
5. We would continue with the oil packs in the caecum, in the liver area, as we have indicated; using the application to relieve these strains, for the adhesions have NOT been broken up. While they have loosened in some areas of the caecum and in the lacteal duct area, this very change makes for the seemingly more violent reaction - but of a lesser duration. However, the stoppages - or the tendencies for a lack of the proper flow of the lymph through the colon and caecum area (or constipation) - make for the more violent or the more SEVERE reactions.
6. To be sure, we would not use the packs during the menstrual periods; although we WOULD during such periods make for deeper manipulations in the cervical and also in the dorsal (lower dorsal) and lumbar area - either with the massage or the electrically driven vibrator.
7. In the matter of the diet, keep those things that are nerve and blood building for the body, especially; those that are the more alkalin in their nature.
8. We would be mindful also to keep away from the tendencies for using - at any time - the hypnotics or the bromides.
9. As an eliminant we would use the Fletcher's Castoria in small doses. Even if it is necessary to use this two or three times a week - if there are the vegetables eaten, and the fruits, juices of fruits, that make for more and more tendency towards the normal eliminations - it will be of greater help to the body.
10. Do that.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Why do no attacks occur when there is fever in the body?
    (A) This should be an indication to those who would study such conditions that the information coming through this channel knows what it's talking about! For the fever makes for an increase in the flow of the lymph through the body. Hence all those areas where there are the adhesions and those portions that are attempting to be broken up, these then contract with the cold or the less high temperature in the body, see? As these are gradually broken up, we will find there will be less and less of the attacks.
    Don't add to that which has been outlined heretofore - and here; but DO all of these CONSISTENTLY, persistently, and we will get results!
13. (Q) Should she apply the packs when the body has a fever?
    (A) When the body has a fever it is well to apply packs.
14. (Q) What is to be done to enable the body to fall asleep at night?
    (A) The use of the electrically driven vibrator should make for the relaxing sufficiently for the body to fall to sleep. Use this over the cerebrospinal system, or around the back of the head, the neck, across the shoulders, even down to the lower portion of the body, as has been indicated.
15. (Q) How many ounces of beef juice should the body take every day?
    (A) From two to three and a half ounces is sufficient. This should not be taken all at once, you see. For a tablespoonful of the beef juice, made properly, carries the same quantity of nourishment that you would have in half a pound of beef! What would be a half a pound of beef at once in the body? Take, then, a teaspoonful at the time - this would be much better, and take it every few hours.
16. (Q) Should the Aconite and Laudanum be continued before the packs?
    (A) It has been given; it should.
17. We are through with this reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 728-1 on 11/12/34 and subsequent Reports.

REPORTS

1. 1/09/35 Mother's letter: "I thank you very much for your wonderful letter, which enlightened us a great deal.
   "Dr. Brooks was over to see us [Virginia S. Brooks, Ph.T., N.D.], and has seen [728]. She recommended to add 20 minute hot epsom salt pack every morning on her stomach. But [728] will not do it, until you agree to it. She is taking two tablespoons of White Mineral Oil every night, and moves her bowels once and some times twice a day. Is it all right, or is the Oil forming a habit.
   "Please advise what to give her to eat in between meals, as she gets very hungry.
   "To enable the body to fall asleep, should the vibrator be used instead of the Oil massage on the spine, as indicated in the first reading, or additional."
2. 1/14/35 Letter from EC to mother: "I have yours of the 9th, and note what you have to say about Dr. Brooks coming in to see [728].
   "I do not see how the Epsom Salts packs would be harmful at all. I am sure they would be advisable, even if they were given just before the application of the oil packs, for this would open the pores of the skin and allow the body to absorb a great deal more of the oil. It may become a little bit severe, but would be especially good just before her periods.
   "The taking of the mineral oil is advisable, provided she does not take so much of it that it upsets the digestion and doesn't give the system time enough to assimilate the food values from that she takes in her diet. It is a very natural thing that when she continues to keep the stomach empty, that she would become quite hungry. I think an advisable thing to try would be the malted milk between meals. This may be changed from the regular to the chocolate, or she may at times put an egg in same. She can vary it also by the addition of or leaving out raw milk. This should satisfy the appetite, and would be wholesome and body building, and tend to make for better normal activity of the eliminating system. This would especially be good for her to take just before retiring at night, taken about as warm as she can drink it. This tends to make for the necessary nerve reaction for her to fall asleep.
   "The vibrator treatment may be given also just before time to sleep, and it might be well that the vibrator treatment be given, after the oil packs, along the spine.
   "I understand this makes a considerable amount of work to do, but I am very sure you nor [728] will spare any trouble if we can bring about a correction of these disorders. When you give the packs, these would last for possibly one or two periods of heating them, which would be 15 or 20 minutes. Then the vibrator treatment would be for 5 or 10 minutes and, if I remember correctly, is to work from the center of the spine towards the extremities. This not too rapid, but quite thorough.
   "Thanking you for your interest, and hoping and trusting that we, indeed, may be of a service, appreciating your letting us hear from you regularly, I am..."
3. 1/17/35 Mother's letter to EC: "I received your letter today and I thank you very much. I am very sorry to annoy you so much, but you are the only one I can obtain advice from. I am in a very complicated position.
   "When I first started your treatments I gradually cut out Dr. James pills. Since the Check Reading, I do not give her any pills at all. For a few days she was fair, but then the attacks became so numerous, that they interfered with her sleeping and eating. She has as many as a 100 attacks a day. Today she had a severe falling attack. She could not go on this way any longer. So I had to give her a half of a pill.
   "Please advise what to do, if her attacks are as bad. Hope to hear from you soon. Yours truly,..."
4. 1/22/35 EC's letter to mother: "Personally, I think you were quite right in resorting to the use of the pills, under the circumstances.
   "I will try and make a check on this in the morning, and I hope will be able to have something that will be worthwhile. Of course, this is on our own, and no expense to you.
   "Hoping and trusting that we may be of a service, I am..."
5. 1/23/35 A.M. EC attempted rdg. for [728]: "We don't find the body here."
6. 1/23/35 P.M. See 728-3.

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